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Show content of an AVRO file with Python

This note describes how we can show the content of an AVRO file with Python.
We use python3 as tool here. We use this from an Anaconda framework. I checked whether this installation already contained an AVRO package, but this wasn’t the case. Therefore, AVRO was downloaded (as avro-python3-1.8.2.tar.gz) and next command was issued: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe -m pip install C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\avro-python3-1.8.2.tar.gz. The screen then looked like:.
Once, AVRO was installed, an AVRO file can be created with: